Fountain device.



-F. l. BROWN.

FOUNTAIN DEVICE.

APPLICATION FILED SEPT.23| 191-5.

Patented Oct. 31; 1916.

WiZw z Z fiakweya FRANK I. BROWN, 01 SEATTLE, WASHINGTON.

FOUNTAIN DEVICE.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Application filed September 23, 1915. Serial No. 52,195.

To all whom it may concern Be it known that I, FRANK I. BROWN, a citizen of the United States, and resident of Seattle, in the county of King and State of Washington, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Fountain Devices, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to devices which serve to contain materials of a pasty character and which are constructed so that their contents may be discharged in regulated amount and applied, as discharged to surfaces. It may therefore be called a fountain device for applying pasty substances.

The object of my invention is to provide a convenient, neat and simple device which may be charged with a quantity of pasty material, from which this material may be discharged and applied in small amounts to surfaces as desired, and which will preserve its contents uninjured between the times of its use.

The novel features which constitute my invention will be hereinafter described and particularly pointed out in the claims.

The accompanying drawing shows my invention in the form of construction which is now preferred by me.

Figure 1 is a longitudinal central section through the casing. Fig. 2 is a section showing on a larger scale, the construction at the discharge end. Fig. 3 shows a construction which is preferred for the outer end of the plunger for special uses.

My device comprises a casing 1, plunger 4, clamping ring 2 and the cloth 3 held by ring 2. The casing 1 is interiorly threaded and the plunger 4 has a section'40 at its inner end threaded to screw within the easing. For some uses it would also have a milled head 41 on its outer end, which contributes to the ease of turning it. For cer-' tain other uses this end would be brought to a wedge shape with its tip rounded, as shown at 42 in Fig. 3.

The other end of the casing is closed by a perforated diaphragm 6. A clamping ring 2 has its inner surface threaded for a short distance from its inner edge and the exterior surface of the casing is reciprocally threaded a short distance from its end, as is shown at 10.

The outer corner of the casing is" preferably beveled, or coned, as shown at 11 andthe corresponding inner surface of the ring is correspondingly coned, as shown at 20. Between these surfaces are secured the edges of a cloth disk, 3. A cap 7 is placed over the ring 2 when the device is not in use.

In using, the casing is charged with the material and the plunger inserted. Upon sufficiently screwing down the plunger, the material will be forced out through the perforations of the diaphragm 6. The exudations through the holes of the diaphragm Patented Oct. 31, 1916.

will tend to lift or bulge outward the cloth 3. This will provide a slight storage capacity without the casing which will be slowly discharged through the cloth when this is applied to a surface, particularly if it is rubbed thereon. This forms a sort of cushion which will enable the paste to be'applied without scraping the surface by sharp metal corners.

The device may be used for applying shoe polishes, cosmetics, adhesive paste, soaps, or any material which is of a pasty character. When used for adhesive materials, it may be desirable to use a plunger having its outer end brought to a rounded edge, as shown at 5 in Fig. 3, this being convenient for pressing two pieces of paper or fabric together after paste has been applied by the other end.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent of the United States of Amer- 1ca 1s:

1 A device of the character described com risin a tubular container having a per orate head closing one end, a plunger screwing into the other end, and means for securing a cloth over the end having the perforated head.

' 2. A device of the character described comprising a tubular container having a perforated head closing one end, a plunger screwing into the other end, a cloth fitting over the end having the perforated head and overlapping the side surfaces of the container, and a clamping ring screwing upon this end of the container and adapted to clamp the overlapping margin of .the cloth upon the container.

Signed at Seattle, Washington, this 18th day of September, 1915.

" FRANK I. BROWN. 

